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Even if not, impeachment needs to go through the Senate, right? I think public sentiment is on the administration’s side given the state of The State. If not, this country is truly effed in the head, so whatever.

Yes, but it’s not just about impeachment. For me, it’s more about any MAGA legislative advancements being stopped in their tracks, not to mention frivolous investigations galore into anything and everything you can think of.

In the last election I actually read a great many of the polls. Doing that I could see the games played to over-sample the demo groups that favored the Dems. You could not easily unpeel that to come up with a true number, but read enough of them and you could get a sense … get a range.

A few days ago I picked out a few to read, in locations I knew something about. More than one happened to be in very Dem places. I was shocked to see just how skewed the polls were toward Dems. More so than in 2016.

So think about that. In a strong Dem place there is no reason to skew so much and still see a Dem win. But they did. It seemed important enough to someone to show not only a win, but a landslide.

I have only read a relative handful in this cycle. So in 2016 my rule of thumb was the skew was often about 3 points. Sometimes 5 or 6 with a particularly bad poll. The ones I read the other day are at least 5-6 minimum and probably more.

And even more to the point, that is 5-6 without giving anything to the Dem / Rep differences in turnout and enthusiasm seen in actual primary contests. Like in FL the other day. Adjust the turnout assumptions and the skew well into double digits.

I was tortured today by never-ending tributes to McCain, highlighted by frigging insensitive reporters focusing on Megan McCain’s pain

….leave her alone, please, frigging CNN et.al…a daughter deserves privacy to mourn her father, regardless of what we think about it…she’s probably the only person who loved the POS, and she should be shown some respect…

followed by his casket’s flight to DC (was that PDJT’s plane?) OMG. The poor family. Cindy McCain, who I think didn’t even like him, had to tolerate hours of preaching, followed by a flight, followed by….and the only reason they’re doing all this is to poke a stick in Trump’s eye. Damn vultures, and (sorry) damn McCain…the thought of this debacle was probably the only thing that gave him pleasure in his last days. No thought of his family? Or what they’d have to suffer through?

Now I’m going to have to think nice things about Megan McCain because nobody deserves the treatment she’s getting….and I don’t even like her a tiny bit. Until now. Dang.

Happily, I’m not being tortured by any of it. I switched on Tucker last night and saw coverage of the ‘event’ and just switched back to s’thing else more uplifting… my ‘taped’ recording of The Real Housewives of NYC Finale, Part 2. At least the backstabbing going on in the Housewife spectacle was lighthearted and forgivable to anyone watching.

I later turned back to Fox and found POTUS at his best. What a great night!!

McPainintheass was a globalist neocon who sold himself and America out to the highest bidder. I’m so sick of this glorification of this POS. He was a traitor along with so many other on both sides of the aisle in The Swamp. This is why Donald Trump is our president and will be through January of 2025.

The more I look at the happenings the more it pisses me off…Damn the last presidents to pass away had funerals that were way more low key that this.
H3LL the money American taxpayers are going to end up paying for this fiasco would probably have paid for the Military parade a couple of times over. Mind you a Military parade that honored ALL military not just a shitty traitor .

Thumbing through ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩’s Art of the Deal again. Here he talks about using free, earned media instead of paying for ads. Basically, his presidential campaign strategy 30 years later. pic.twitter.com/rjh731A5hV

So Weissman is officially in the scope of the Congressional investigation then. Time for an invite. Followed by the inevitable subpoena. Just the fact that he’s directly involved in what amounts to a sham sting operation/conspiracy followed by a Grade A Deep State Witch Hunt is beyond bad optics. It probably amounts to ethical violations. Why? Because Bruce Ohr knew all along that the dossier was crap. Weissman probably told him: “Doonnn’t worrryyy ‘bououut iiittt!!!” This on top of his contacts with the four reporters on the Manafort deal BEFORE he was assigned to the Mueller team — not just contact, but apparently “coordination”. The guy is a f*cking unethical turd, and needs to be held accountable. “Pit bull” my ass. He’s a turd.

Good! The IT industry is being decimated by the flood of cheap labor H1B visa holders. Shoot, at one of my prior jobs they practically took over, it was disgusting. Layoff after layoff to dump the more expensive American citizens, wave after wave of incoming H1B’s, the vast majority who were from India. It’s really disturbing to go to work and feel like you were transplanted to a foreign country because you’re a minority.

A family member has about 10 years in IT. At one of his jobs, his supervisor who was from India said she hated working with Americans because they did not do as told. When there is a problem, family member gave solutions and pointed out bad ideas. I guess in the India underlings do as told even if it is poor programming causing system lag, etc. The supervisor said she only wanted to hire from India.

This was my first H1B experience. I thought how can you hate Americans in America. Someone needs to be told about this. Stop H1B abuse. Hire Americans.

If I am repeating earlier postings, I apologize.
Reading about the interweb thingy; the story of the day seems to be The President cancelling an annual raise for civilian federal employees. He indicated that the “budget” could not support the expense. The canceled expenditure is reported to be $25 Billion.

Seems I have heard that figure before about a project The President is extremely enthusiastic about. Now what was it again???

And no, he would not cancel one to fund another.
He has good reason to cancel/freeze… most are already overpaid
Canceling raises may cause some workers to quit, move on, which is a good thing as there are too many to start with…

Yeah, speaking on behalf of Feds, that’s crap. After years of freezes from Dear President Obama, our salary is severely constrained already. If PDJT could have salary freezes for our useless employees, more power to him, and I’d behind him all the way. Talk about us all being overpaid is like talk about “all minorities are underrepresented” Nonsense. The devil is in the details. The best people are underpaid, and the useless are overpaid. Obama made the Fed into a jobs program, but not all Feds are jobs program people.

I could make 150% of my salary if I left the Fed. This is not a guess, I have been offered that pay, and who knows what I could get if I actually looked, rather than being recruited. But I prefer serving my country.

Contracting everyone’s salaries irrespective of ability, and irrespective of value, while the rest of the country is getting a raise, is a double whammy. If this keeps up, all that will be left is the people who can’t get other jobs.

So I hope this is leverage for a future budget fight. Else, good grief, PDJT, wise up.

No offense intended, but you should be able to make 150% of your salary in the private sector; that is a good thing. Private sector employees don’t enjoy any of the the job security or retirement benefits that federal employees experience.

And, yes, tomorrow being a Friday before a holiday weekend, please do expect a cowardly info dump from Team Mueller to salvage face lost on Ohr testimony. Calling it a “bombshell” however, is in the eye of the #FakeNews holder.

Dang. These abortion peeps are so radical in their cause. Wonder how this billboard is going over in the Dallas area. Gotta believe it’s a real turn-off and changing some people’s minds, or at least making them wake up and pay attention to the issue:

This is a billboard in Dallas, TX, trying to convince Black women to exterminate themselves.

It gets MORE extreme: is that possible, YES.
There is a group of pro abortionists that say “why stop at birth? If, after delivering the piece of tissue, the woman decides she doesn’t want it, in 7-30 days post delivery, she should be able to have the Drs. kill it.”

Really, no how matter how extreme you think they are, they will go farther.

Apparently there is a discussion going on over whether it will be a minimum 7 day window to kill your child or they might give you up to 30 days? Post postpartum depression will take out a lot of innocent children. Even suggesting such a thing sounds like solicitation of murder which I thought was a crime.

Too many customers are pimps bringing in underage girls that are being trafficked. First victim the girl being raped to enrich the pimp. Second victim the baby conceived under such circumstances. PP is more than willing to ignore the obvious need to report the situation. I wonder how many girls are at these clinics because someone else told them that they have to kill their own child. I shudder to think about it.

One doesn’t even need pilot operators. The drones can be programmed to fly to a GPS coordinate using an evasive approach.

The exact coordinate can be marked by someone in the audience of a public appearance of the target.

It would be a formidable challenge even to stop some medium sized drones, each with a few kilo payload, from flying through a window (known GPS coordinate; known presence of targets at specific times).

Beto O’Rourke protester yelling in town hall on gun control. Texan man- “Come and take it!” Beto guy, “We will!” Then @tedcruz said, That exchange right there is what this whole campaign is about! Crowd explodes. #2Apic.twitter.com/2LZW7ot992

There’s been no news of that…
It’s not like Canada gets to say “ok okay, we’ll join in”
No… Canada has to meet the US requirements for a “fair deal”
So far, that’s a no go… not something that can be accomplished in a day…

Mexico met with US negotiators 45 times in WH, and 10 times at Jared’s home.

Ms “I am Woman Hear Me Roar” was late for first meeting with Jared this a.m.

If you are a US government official and you are deporting Americans be warned. When the worm turns you will not be safe because you were just following orders. You do not have to take part in illegal acts ordered by this President's administration. https://t.co/BLq48HRkbH

It will be interesting if the 4am Media Matters talking points doesn’t come out today. We’ll know if it is true if the MSM doesn’t have a coherent story come morning. People in France are already commenting on strange things happening in their media outlets. Q claims he took out a bunch of communications/intel satellites and supercomputers.

Watching Enemy of the State… made in 1998. Saw when it first came out and opened my eyes to possibilities of what de ep st ate was capable of back then.

The date of birth of gene hackmans character in the movie is 9/11/40. Hmmmmmmm.

If it’s been 20 yrs since this movie, how much de eper is it today. God help us.

It makes sense to me that it is so entangled that it in no way could the horrid, evil swamp be flushed in the mere 588 days our Deplorable President is in Office. But I truly believe he is indeed working on it. I felt he was conveying that message during his campaign at the rallies I attended and his words at last night’s rally convince me of it.